Us Linux users are very passionate about our operating system. We get into flame wars with others, push it down other’s throats (which we don’t condone,) blog about, work feverishly in converting, and finally “vandalize” our cities. Here are 13 Linux and Open Source graffiti art I found on the Interwebs. I tried to figure »
Chromium is the Open Source project behind Google’s browser Chrome. It aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all  users to experience the web. Indeed as I type this on Chromium on an Ubuntu laptop, I can truly feel the speed. While Chromium on Linux is still in the pre-release stage, »
Ahhh, the wonderful stuff you can find on DeviantArt! This one is brought to you by ~Gegege-no. It’s a girl riding a GNU with Tux wielding a Quake blaster. I really like the subtlety of the Ubuntu imagery: only a portion of the Ubuntu logo appears on the girl’s forehead and Ubuntu colored beads in »
KDE 4.3 was released 3 days ago, bringing integration with other technologies, such as PolicyKit, NetworkManager & Geolocation services, was another focus of this release. KRunner’s interface has been overhauled. A much more flexible system tray has been developed. Many new Plasmoids have been added, including the openDesktop.org Plasmoid – an initial take on the »
Just a month ago Mozilla gave us the final version of Firefox 3.5 giving us a lot of nifty features like HTML5, private browsing, smarter session control among others. But Mozilla aren’t the kind of people who sit on their laurels, they already posted screenshots of Firefox 3.7 a week ago, and today we have »
This is pretty straight forward yet awesome! Get all your friends on a real chat client instead of that annoying and crippled Facebook chat window! All you need to do is install a little package called pidgin-facebook. If you are on a Debian system just download this package and install it using the GUI or »
Martin Owens over at DoctorMo’s blog designed an impressive set of visuals detailing a wide range of computer ports. Any self-respecting geek should know these, they do come in handy from time to time: Serial Port: A serial communication physical interface through which information transfers in or out one bit at a time PS/2 Connector: »
If you don’t know what Nmap is then this probably doesn’t interest you and/or not “1337″ enough. What’s wrong with you? Today, insecure.org announced the release of Nmap 5.0, which they consider the most important release since 1997. Their release notes detail the most important changes: The new Ncat tool aims to be your Swiss »
The Canonical Design team is currently running a contest for beautiful desktop wallpapers for its upcoming Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 scheduled to be released in October 2009. They have created a photo pool on Flickr where you can submit or just browse proposed backgrounds: In our next release, the Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10), we would »
Lets face it, the default GNOME desktop isn’t the easiest desktop on the eye. While Ubuntu’s desert brown is actually an eye sore, other distros like Mint and Fedora have done better jobs in theming their desktops. But still most users aren’t content with default desktops and usually tweak around their themes via gnome-look.org among »
